INDEX. 
Apiary, 46 
Bee- Moth, 38 
Bee Trees, 60 
Covers for Hives, 48, 77 
Casts, or after-swarms, 61 
Drone Combs, pruning 42 
Equalizing- Stocks for winter, 22 
Feeding Bees, 28 
Feed Box 32 
Feed Bees, when to, 32 
Feeding, object of, 32 
History of Bees, 5 
Honey Comb, 18 
Honey not made by Bees 16 
Honey, ^Rendering 46 
Homes in the woods selected before leaving 60 
Homes, Bees know their 47 
Hives, 69 
“ movable comb 78 
“ kept separate 47 
“ observatory 80 
Italian Bees, how to propagate 12 
“ “ description of Queens, Drones and Workers 84 
Italianizing an Apiary, 86 
Luck and Notions, 49 
Pollen or Bee-Bread, 17 
Propolis, 18 
Profits and Importance of Bee-Culture 93 
Pruning Combs, 42 
Queen Bees, description of, 7 
“ “ Italian 84 
“ “ fertilization of 10 
“ “ how to raise artificially, 10 
“ “ rearing, 86 
“ “ introducing 89 
